We invite all postgraduates working on the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods to submit papers for and attend our 8th Annual Symposium at the University of Birmingham on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th May 2018.

Possible topics for papers and images might include, but are not limited to:

Forgery and fakes

Representation of society and classes

Disguise/shapeshifting/impersonation

Historiographical innacuracy

Plots and treason

Fealty and treason

Ideas of cartography and ethnography

Saints and sinners

Modern representations of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern world

Oaths and fidelity

Temptation

Authorship and anonymity

Family history, heraldry and insignia

Identity

Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Please send proposals of approximately, or 1000 words if applying as a panel, to emremforum@googlemail.com by Friday 3rd March 2018.

For the exhibition send a high-resolution image, along with a 200 word summary of what it shows and how it links to your research (if accepted, we will organise the printing). These will be exhibited during the conference as a five-minute presentation, and prizes will be awarded.